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At 238 words per minute for silent reading and 150 for reading aloud, which are the averages reported in the research literature for adults reading non-technical prose. Dense or technical material is slower.
The count with spaces is what most platforms measure. Note that emoji and some accented characters take more than one unit in SMS, and links are often counted as a fixed length regardless of their actual size.